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(Legendary character) Slender Man Dewey (Cat) Germain, Sophie 1776-1831 Internet Social aspects Large type books Murder Investigation Private investigators Massachusetts Boston Fiction Winston, Sophie (Fictitious character) Winston, Sophie (Fictitious character) Fiction Women BiographySpencer, Sophia
Summary: Presents a young girl from Canada with a passion for insects and becoming an entomologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPEMyron, Vicki
Summary: "In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.8 MYRRecca, Sophia
Summary: The fourteen-year-old author tells the story of her parents' divorce and how she demanded that both parents remain in her life, no matter what.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 RECMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYRCampbell, Olivia
Summary: "In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they frequently avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness - a negative diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs, or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 920 CAMSpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 808.3 SPEAlikhan, Salima
Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHManzano, Sonia
Summary: A coming-of-age memoir by the actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MANZANO, SONIA MANSnow, Richard
Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNOWurst, Spencer F. (Spencer Free)
Contents: Enlistment and premobilization training, 112th infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard -- Mobilization, basic, and small unit training -- Company, battalion, regimental, and First Army maneuvers, 1941 -- Units in turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern training camps, and war-time expansion -- From the 112th infantry to parachute school, Fort Benning -- First assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WURSpencer, Charles Spencer
Summary: "A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Summary: Kathryn Ardleigh tries to adapt to high-society life with her newly lorded husband, Charles, and she discovers a new friend in Jennie Churchill, who is embroiled in a scandal involving claims that Jack the Ripper is the father of her son, the future leader Winston Churchill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dog Ear Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 SVEBardoe, Cheryl
Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GERSpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.3 SPEDavis, Krista
Summary: "Sophie is busy handling the first ever convention of the Association of Ghost Kitchens--restaurants that do delivery only--but she's taking a little time out for a lunch meeting organized by A Healthy Meal. The group is dedicated to providing meals for children in need, and as a bonus, it'll give Sophie the perfect opportunity to ogle the lavish Old Town home of socialite Geraldine Stansfield....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVWilson, Kip
Summary: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WILDavis, Krista
Summary: Domestic diva Sophie Winston can whip up an elaborate event in her sleep, but as the hippest hostess she rarely gets to enjoy the full guest treatment. Which is why her best friend Nina Reid Norwood loops her in to the latest culinary craze: a pop-up gourmet dinner party. The celebrity chef, the epicurean menu, and the high-profile attendees are all a surprise, turning the decadent dining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVAtkins, Ace
Summary: "Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKDavis, Krista
Summary: "Old Town's midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue's homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, making more than sixty ascents until 1819, she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLAHale, Kathleen
Summary: "The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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Summary: "From GQ columnist and Twitter sensation, this hilarious, clever, and eye-opening memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood-from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life's constant double standards-perfectfor fans of Shrill and PEN15. Like so many women, Benoit spent her formative years struggling to do the "right" thing-to make others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BENOIT, SOPHIA BENIreland, Josh
Summary: "The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021